Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

The Johnny Cash Project

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Saved a quick blog post draft about the The Johnny Cash Project back in April of last year when I first learned of it. The collaborative project site describes it: Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you’ll create a unique and personal portrait ...

Recording noise duo Toxoplasmosis with the Soundcloud iPhone app

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Toxoplasmosis at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 12/28/10 by divvied Put my iPhone on the table at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, fired up the SoundCloud app and recorded this Toxoplasmosis performance. To describe the duo badly: experimental noise.

Doc Pop’s “Daily App Experiment” created with iPhone image apps

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Doc Pop wears many digital hats: iPad musician,  visual experimenter of mobile apps, blogger, yo-yo madman, game developer/designer, painter, illustrator, etc. etc. He's was also my first follower on the (primarily) iPhone (only) social photo app http://instagr.am. The good doctor does a Daily App Experiment where he takes an images and applies ...

Old IM convo on ‘Nearly a Nerd’ gets the Xtranormal treatment

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Sort of duplicating, or triplicating, content here, but the text of an old blog post "IM babble: Lash La Rue, Twitter, Randy Travis and Tramp Stamps" found its way to becoming an animated video via Xtranormal.

It’s Veteran’s Day

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Something a bit different for Veteran's Day.  Something that cuts directly to the soul of what this day means.  No flag waving.  Just the raw humanity of it. (Advise against watching the imagery is this "video" and let your mind do the work. Then get a decent quality copy of ...

3 Videos: Sport, Projection Mapping, Digital-Architectural Music Video

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

While already ancient in Internet years, these three stood out after a recent video viewing catchup binge: Sport: If this hasn't been on repeat on ESPN can anyone really even utter the word "sport" anymore? Meatspace: The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo. Video Projection Mapping for the 600th anniversary of the Astronomical Clock in ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 3: eReading & Music

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

The Multi-part postings "The dreaded 'Idea'" addresses minor world needs that I'd like to see happen but don't believe any single one is important enough (for me) to go to anybody with. Part 1 spouts freely about Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas. Part ...

Ninja Tune XX box set Promo Video compiles 58 Ninja Tune videos

Monday, October 11th, 2010

NINJA TUNE XX Video Mix by MOX The most decent Ninja Tune record label is celebrating its 20 years anniversary with a box set.  It includes six CDs, six 7-inches, two posters, and a hardcover edition of the retrospective book Ninja Tune: 20 Years Of Beats & Pieces. Stream its music free. And buy it. ...

10 great Independent Record Shops

Monday, September 20th, 2010

The record store -- you know, those non-iTunes meatspaces where you can kind of touch and hold music -- is rare and dying.  Except for Independent record shops.  These shops sell physical music formats to people other than top 40 lovers who have no computer.  In other words, they sell to music lovers. Flavorwire did ...

Brief trip to Sonar Fest, Chicago, IL

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Panoramic of the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, Chicago,IL. The Sonar Festival's first year in Chicago ran from September 9-11, 2010.  I took off from St Louis Thursday, September 9th, via Amtrak, in hopes to catch a few acts that evening and head back early the next morning.  But the Amtrak broke ...